RELIGIOUS OFFENCES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2366, 6 August 1886, Page 2

RELIGIOUS OFFENCES.

A Bill has beon printed by order of the House tho object of which'is fco all laymen from liability to- .piiiiiiHtfiont on account of any roligioua offence. * By the first clause it is proposed that after the paasinj; of the : M' no •criminal .proceedings shall k anjr Couft futaijißt any person for sohißoi, heresy, apostacy, blasphemous law, ot stituted in againstspiritual' personß of the Ohuroh of land or in the courts ol tht) Church' of ..ffiiiiti# of •we' tto flaiipheDa^bf^enSr^t^l^l^^the Chrietian* religion wm an 'dßce at more particularly dealt with by 'an Act of ParliAmenj 9th and 10th present Bill proposes to., repeal altogether. By that Act,'ifc wM laid down a denial of the doctrine of Ihe Trinity, or r£/Jie truth ft mail 'iny '-publio officf or employment; and that on a repetition ef • fJi& offencdj- .'he ! of suing in a Court of law, or jpf- 1 succeeding to a legacy, andMalllbe ili&lo, at the same time, to three years .imprisonment. Tliis Act Kfiuained ia full force dowu to the year 1813; when-sd inu li of it was ■BWWH of the .Trinity; in the opinion of the judges, either-effecting that part :«£. A %«-denial ot Christianity," or-io any ?waf alteruiK the pffpuce at common' liw, which, as it existed before tW-'fA'tl vraa passed, would have continued to. exist ovon had tho latter been euti&lpjpealed. Aa Lord Eldo.n observed in 1817, it only abolished the Btatuory penalties enacted iu l6!)8, but duKW<remoye the criuiiut ality .fit Ulie ac|| t©/ |hic|i|fchey were fttached. jjOn o«Asi«4 other judges took tho same view, amfisg them Lord Tenterdeti, Justices Holyroyd and Bayly, Sir.|tzrgKelly and Baroa Bram|' e llf .put JSib years afterwards,, in the cisse 'of'lPoote, Lord Coleridge. seems to have hid.down that we juußt! assume'tlie eoiflmojiiaw to hare folkyef tho r a|on .of |k^^'il ( audlkafc was no longer required from mw^la Lined that the denial of it, was in offence now at issue'-a not^whiff' disbelief in be tolerated, but whether blasphemy or ribald abuse of Christianity shall. :'ie tolerated. - Exchange. "

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